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Sep
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Locked out by COVID, refugees’ lives on hold

Locked out by COVID, refugees’ lives on hold

COVID-19
EDWARD MCALLISTER WHEN Michelle Alfaro left her office at the United Nations in Geneva on March 13, her job finding homes for the world’s most vulnerable refugees was under control. Four days later, the new coronavirus had knocked it into chaos. Governments across the world announced border closures, lockdowns and flight cancellations. The United Nations was forced to suspend the programme. “Everything collapsed that week,” said Alfaro, who manages resettlements for the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR. Millions of people have been thrown into limbo by the new coronavirus. Those Alfaro works with had been promised escape from war, violence, conflict…
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Aug
27
2020
By The African Mirror
#45 at this year’s General Assembly

#45 at this year’s General Assembly

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Harris Gleckman, Phd, is a former UN staff member and currently Senior Fellow, Center for Governance and Sustainability, UMass-Boston and member of the Advisory Board of the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS).  Author of Multistakeholder Governance and Democracy: A Global Challenge, 2018 Routledge. He can be reached at [email protected] An Open Letter to Friends of the United Nations HARRIS GLECKMAN The only head of state so far committed to physically addressing the opening of the new UN General Assembly session is US President Trump. As the rules for COVID-19 allow only one of the six seats of each…
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Aug
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Libya sovereign fund to ask UN for freedom to invest billions

Libya sovereign fund to ask UN for freedom to invest billions

BUSINESS
TOM ARNOLD LIBYA's sovereign wealth fund head plans to ask the United Nations to allow it to invest billions of dollars sitting idle in its accounts, after missing out on some $4.1 billion in potential equity returns during nearly a decade of sanctions. The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) was blacklisted in March 2011 because it was then controlled by the family of toppled ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Its assets were valued at $67 billion in 2012, but LIA plans to update that in October after a review by its financial adviser Deloitte. Sanctions have had a heavy toll on the LIA,…
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Aug
11
2020
By The African Mirror
Army says east Congo militia killed 16 villagers

Army says east Congo militia killed 16 villagers

NEWS
A militia killed 16 people during a raid on villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army has said, in more ethnic violence that the United Nations has warned may constitute crimes against humanity. Attacks by various militia and armed groups, as well as counter-operations by the Congolese army (FARDC), forced over 400,000 people to flee their homes between March and June, according to the U.N. refugee agency. Last month, the government sent several former warlords, including one just released after more than a decade in prison in the Hague and Congo for war crimes, to convince Cooperative for…
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Jul
31
2020
By The African Mirror
Half of violence against African migrants is by law enforcers, UN says

Half of violence against African migrants is by law enforcers, UN says

NEWS
CECILE MANTOVANI NEARLY  half of all the violence visited on African migrants during their journey to the Mediterranean coast is perpetrated by law enforcers, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has said. According to a report by UNHCR and the Danish Refugee Council's Mixed Migration Centre (MMC), thousands of refugees and migrants suffer extreme abuse including torture and sexual or gender-based violence, and in some cases death. The report is based on nearly 16,000 interviews with refugees and migrants. "In 47% of the cases, the victims reported the perpetrators of violence are law enforcement authorities, whereas in the past, we…
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Jul
19
2020
By The African Mirror
France, Germany, Italy threaten sanctions over arms for Libya

France, Germany, Italy threaten sanctions over arms for Libya

NEWS
THE leaders of France, Germany and Italy on Saturday threatened for the first time to use sanctions against countries that continued to violate a United Nations arms embargo on Libya. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte urged "all foreign actors to end their increasing interference and to fully respect the arms embargo established by the United Nations Security Council" in a joint statement issued by the French presidency after meeting in Brussels. "We are ready to consider the possible use of sanctions if the breaches of the embargo at sea, on land…
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